Author: Laura Estill
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611495156
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Throughout the seventeenth century, early modern play readers and playgoers copied dramatic extracts into their commonplace books, verse miscellanies, diaries, and songbooks. This is the first book to examine these often overlooked texts, which reveal what early modern audiences and readers took, literally and figuratively, from plays.
Dramatic Extracts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts
Author: Laura Estill
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611495156
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Throughout the seventeenth century, early modern play readers and playgoers copied dramatic extracts into their commonplace books, verse miscellanies, diaries, and songbooks. This is the first book to examine these often overlooked texts, which reveal what early modern audiences and readers took, literally and figuratively, from plays.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611495156
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Throughout the seventeenth century, early modern play readers and playgoers copied dramatic extracts into their commonplace books, verse miscellanies, diaries, and songbooks. This is the first book to examine these often overlooked texts, which reveal what early modern audiences and readers took, literally and figuratively, from plays.
Choice English Extracts
Author: Basil Montagu
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Dramatic Extracts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts
Author: Laura Estill
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 1644530473
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Throughout the seventeenth century, early modern play readers and playgoers copied dramatic extracts (selections from plays and masques) into their commonplace books, verse miscellanies, diaries, and songbooks. Dramatic Extracts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts: Watching, Reading, Changing Plays is the first to examine these often overlooked texts, which reveal what early modern audiences and readers took, literally and figuratively, from plays. As this under-examined archival evidence shows, play readers and playgoers viewed plays as malleable and modular texts to be altered, appropriated, and, most importantly, used. These records provide information that is not available in other forms about the popularity and importance of early modern plays, the reasons plays appealed to their audiences, and the ideas in plays that most interested audiences. Tracing the course of dramatic extracting from the earliest stages in the 1590s, through the prolific manuscript circulation at the universities, to the closure and reopening of the theatres, Estill gathers these microhistories to create a comprehensive overview of seventeenth-century dramatic extracts and the culture of extracting from plays. Dramatic Extracts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts: Watching, Reading, Changing Plays explores new archival evidence (from John Milton’s signature to unpublished university plays) while also analyzing the popularity of perennial favorites such as Shakespeare’s The Tempest. The study of dramatic extracts is the study of particulars: particular readers, particular manuscripts, particular plays or masques, particular historic moments. As D. F. McKenzie puts it, “different readers [bring] the text to life in different ways.” By providing careful analyses of these rich source texts, this book shows how active play-viewing and play-reading (that is, extracting) ultimately led to changing the plays themselves, both through selecting and manipulating the extracts and positioning the plays in new contexts. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 1644530473
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Throughout the seventeenth century, early modern play readers and playgoers copied dramatic extracts (selections from plays and masques) into their commonplace books, verse miscellanies, diaries, and songbooks. Dramatic Extracts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts: Watching, Reading, Changing Plays is the first to examine these often overlooked texts, which reveal what early modern audiences and readers took, literally and figuratively, from plays. As this under-examined archival evidence shows, play readers and playgoers viewed plays as malleable and modular texts to be altered, appropriated, and, most importantly, used. These records provide information that is not available in other forms about the popularity and importance of early modern plays, the reasons plays appealed to their audiences, and the ideas in plays that most interested audiences. Tracing the course of dramatic extracting from the earliest stages in the 1590s, through the prolific manuscript circulation at the universities, to the closure and reopening of the theatres, Estill gathers these microhistories to create a comprehensive overview of seventeenth-century dramatic extracts and the culture of extracting from plays. Dramatic Extracts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts: Watching, Reading, Changing Plays explores new archival evidence (from John Milton’s signature to unpublished university plays) while also analyzing the popularity of perennial favorites such as Shakespeare’s The Tempest. The study of dramatic extracts is the study of particulars: particular readers, particular manuscripts, particular plays or masques, particular historic moments. As D. F. McKenzie puts it, “different readers [bring] the text to life in different ways.” By providing careful analyses of these rich source texts, this book shows how active play-viewing and play-reading (that is, extracting) ultimately led to changing the plays themselves, both through selecting and manipulating the extracts and positioning the plays in new contexts. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Literary Extracts from English and Other Works
Author: John Poynder
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commonplace books
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commonplace books
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
Restituta ; Or, Titles, Extracts an Characters of Old Books in English Literature, Revived By Sir Egerton Brydges
Author: Samuel Egerton Brydges
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
A Text-book on English Literature. With Copious Extracts from the Leading Authors, English and American, with Full Instructions as to the Method in which These are to be Studied
Author: Brainerd Kellogg
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385473470
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385473470
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
English Poetesses. A Series of Critical Biographies with Illustrative Extracts
Author: Eric Sutherland Robertson
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385345375
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385345375
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
The Works of Thomas Gray: Extracts: Metrum, observations on English metre; on the pseudo-rhythmus; on rhyme; and the poems of Lydgate. Extracts
Author: Thomas Gray
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
The Fathers of the English Church: Various tracts and extracts from the works of Nicholas Ridley, John Clement, &c. John Philpot, John Rogers, William Turner
Author: Legh Richmond
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
Extracts from the Reports of the English Society for Bettering the Condition of the Poor, and from other papers on the same subject, etc
Author: Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor (Great Britain).
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description